Guardian

@ What MySpace Means: Guardian’s Online Community - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Fri 23 Jun 2006 10:07 AM PST

Guardian tech editor Victor Keegan just got back from Telford, home of the industrial revolution, which makes a tidy introduction for his thoughts on The Guardian’s online community. He reckons…

Telegraph To Delay Stories; Guardian To Do Web-First - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 07 Jun 2006 05:07 PM PST

UK’s fierce newspaper war is, in one part, predicated on one-upping each other through gimmicks, giveaways etc. Now some of that element is moving online, where the newspaper sites are…

Guardian’s Global Ambitions; Biggest Liberal Voice Worldwide - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 06 Jun 2006 04:07 PM PST

Guardian‘s global ambitions haven’t been hidden, but UK rival Times stole some of the limelight last week when they announced launching of a daily print edition in U.S. Now Carolyn…

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Industry Moves: Guardian Media Group Names McCall As CEO - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 08 May 2006 12:07 PM PST

Carolyn McCall, who I met last week at the WeMedia conference in London (and we were on the same panel about business models), has been named the CEO of UK’s…

@We Media: The Grubby Hands-On Business Models Session - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Thu 04 May 2006 03:06 PM PST

This was the “grubby”, hands-on session after all that aspirational, world-changing stuff. It’s is a big panel (maybe too big - six people?!) including Rafat, Dave Sifry of Technorati and…

Guardian Online To Make About $1.75 Million in Profits This Year - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 28 Mar 2006 07:05 PM PST

Well, high time...Carolyn McCall, CEO of UK’s Guardian Newspapers mentioned that the company’s online arm, Guardian Unlimited is on course to make about $1.75 million profit online this year. Related:…

Guardian’s Ambitious Blog Commentary Project Commentisfree Launches - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 13 Mar 2006 09:04 PM PST

UK newspaper Guardian’s rather ambitious online commentary/blog project, Commentisfree, is live now. The site is being touted as the UK version of Huffington Post, though I doubt Guardian would ever…

@ OPA London: Guardian’s CommentIsFree Project - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 03 Mar 2006 12:04 AM PST

I gave Emily and Simon a hard time about the name, but I know they have some history with this...this is the ambitious blog/comment site project by the Guardian, aimed…

Guardian Does a Major Editorial Reshuffle; Launching “Massive” Comment & Analysis Website - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 02 Feb 2006 02:03 PM PST

Things are in a flux at the Guardian Media Group, though not necessarily in a bad way. Among them, the UK media group may sell off non-core assets: divesting its…

Guardian Online In Profits? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 10 Nov 2005 02:12 PM PST

Guardian Online, one of the biggest news/newspapers sites in UK, is in profits this year, according to Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing at Guardian Newspapers. This will come as…

The New Look Guardian Launches Today; Digital Edition Free Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 11 Sep 2005 08:11 PM PST

The Guardian is launching in a new, smaller print format (called ”The Berliner”) in UK today, and the editors are blogging the experience. Plus the digital edition of the newspaper…

Guardian Sells Workthing For 6M GBP - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 21 Sep 2004 11:09 AM PST

UK’s Guardian Media Group (GMG) has sold its recruitment website Workthing for Â£6m to the hotgroup PLC. Guardian’s PeopleBank Technology unit which provides recruitment technology for Workthing and other sites,…

The Guardian Uses Blogging To Tap Into Niche Publishing - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 29 Jul 2004 04:08 PM PST

The people running Guardian Unlimited, both on the business and editorial side, have the savviest team...I would also venture to say that maybe all these moves are not direct-ROI moves…

Guardian Discovers, um, Web - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 25 Jul 2004 11:08 PM PST

“Take a medium and a bright idea and you have movement that begins to leave the poor old print world - with its lorries and presses and heavy-duty problems -…

Guardian Moves Into Dating - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 07 Jul 2004 09:08 PM PST

Guardian Newspapers will take its ”Soulmates” dating service online next week. The launch comes on the back of its existing telephone dating service in conjunction with automated service provider, Telecom…

Guardian Online Lifts the Lid on Global Readership - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 31 Mar 2004 12:04 PM PST

Guardian Unlimited, the online division of Guardian newspaper, is to begin publishing a quarterly geographic breakdown of its website users that, it says, will reinforce its global brand and help…

Guardian Unlimited Introduces Registration - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 12 Mar 2004 05:04 AM PST

The Guardian’s media section online has started with its planned registration scheme..."As others have had to introduce controls and charging, The Guardian has stormed out ahead on the online stakes…

Salon Opens Washington Bureau; Ties Up With Guardian - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 10 Mar 2004 04:03 AM PST

It ain’t over till its over...Salon Media Group, parent of Salon.com, has announced a series of ambitious editorial initiatives, including the opening of a new Washington D.C. news bureau under…

Guardian’s Digital Edition Set For Launch - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 07 Mar 2004 04:03 PM PST

Guardian’s digital edition is set for launch coming week...The Guardian digital edition will cost £9.99 a month, The Observer’s £4.99, with a combination of both priced at £11.99 a month.…

Guardian’s Media Site to Introduce Registration - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 12 Feb 2004 03:03 AM PST

Guardian’s media site MediaGuardian.co.uk will be requiring registrations from March, as planned. This follows last year’s introduction of premium services for one of the biggest news sites in UK. The…

Guardian and Observer put digital editions into beta - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 20 Nov 2003 10:12 AM PST

The Guardian and Observer digital editions started into beta today…

The Sticky Scans of Waldman - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 21 Sep 2003 02:10 AM PST

Simon Waldman, the director of digital publishing at Guardian Newspapers, is in the center of a rather sticky copyright controversy...NY Times (reg. req.) and Wired News pick up on it…

The Guardian of the Web - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 10 Sep 2003 02:10 PM PST

An interview with Emily Bell, the editor-in-chief of Gurdian Unlimited, the online version of Guardian UK...On the reason for its huge popularity: “I think it’s because we’ve kept the site…

Guardian’s Website Down - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 04 Sep 2003 03:10 AM PST

(Update: 4:20 GMT: the site’s back up now) Guardian Unlimited, the popular website of Guardian UK, has been down today, due to what it calls technical difficulties (Emily Bell, the…

Guardian Defends Online Charges-Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 08 Aug 2003 02:08 AM PST

Something I mentioned here before: Guardian did an online chat with site editor Emily Bell, explaining the launch of premium versions of the site. And I am now the “the…